TORONTO DeAndre Carter Jersey , Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- In Friday night's 101-81 victory over Miami Heat, Toronto Raptors' DeMar DeRozan scored a game-high 33 points while wearing a pair of sneakers with Chinese characters on the heel.
The two Chinese characters for the word "sacrifice" is engraved in black ink on the back of the right heel of DeRozan's custom Kobe 11 Nike sneakers. DeRozan is the only NBA player in history to dawn shoes with Chinese calligraphy in an NBA game.
"People pointed out (being the first), definitely a cool thing," said DeRozan following the game in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Xinhua. "That's the cool thing about expressing yourself with shoes, something that is a part of you."
This pair of shoes were obtained from Nike in London last week when Raptors represented the league as part of NBA Global 2016. DeRozan did not debut the shoes until Jan. 20 against Celtics and has now worn the shoes twice.
When asked about the meaning of the word "sacrifice", the seven-year veteran believes that it is reflective of him as a person and his NBA journey so far.
"The ability to express the pain Malik Jackson Jersey , sacrifice and hard work. Sacrifice is something you have to do if you want to be a great player," said DeRozan. "That's the significance of the Kobe 11."
Since joining the league in 2009, DeRozan has sacrificed hours of time to add elements to his game.
After becoming an All-Star for the first time in 2013, DeRozan is poised to join teammate Kyle Lowry this season with his 23.3 per game, good for tenth best in the league.
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp is offering to purchase shares of Uber Technologies Inc at a valuation of US$48 billion, a 30 percent discount to its most recent valuation of US$68.5 billion DeSean Jackson Jersey , a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
The investment, which was approved by the Uber board in October, would also trigger a string of governance changes at Uber that would limit some early shareholders’ voting power, expand the board from 11 to 17 directors and cut the influence of former Chief Executive Travis Kalanick.
The investment and board moves are supported by new Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi and come at the end of a year of scandals and change for Uber, including the announcement last week that executives covered up a major hack in 2016.
The consortium of investors led by SoftBank and Dragoneer Investment Group plan to take a stake of at least 14 percent in the ride-services company. The tender offer was set to launch yesterday, sources told Reuters Nelson Agholor Jersey , and investors have nearly a month to respond.
The SoftBank-led investor group will acquire two of the new board seats, with the remaining four going to independent directors.
If there are not enough interested sellers, SoftBank can still walk away from the deal. SoftBank is also expected to make a separate US$1 billion investment in the company at the US$68.5 billion valuation.
Another person familiar with the deal said the offer price was in line with what investors had been expecting. SoftBank’s offer is close to what Uber was worth in 2015, when shares were priced a little under US$40 apiece for a US$51 billion valuation, according to data from PitchBook Inc.
Even at the discounted price, Uber is the world’s second-highest valued private venture-backed company Sidney Jones Jersey , after China’s ride-service company Didi Chuxing, and the offer is a chance for early investors to lock in substantial profits and for employees to cash in shares that have to date only had value on paper. Shareholders, including employees, with at least 10,000 shares are eligible to sell.
Nearly all secondary transactions, when a new investor purchases from existing shareholders Derek Barnett Jersey , come at a discount to the company’s valuation.
However, the 30 percent discount is steep given Uber’s plan to launch an initial public offering in 2019, said Phil Haslett, co-founder and head of investments at secondary marketplace EquityZen. Usually valuation cuts of this size happen when a company is at risk of being sold at a heavy discount, which Uber is not.
“It really comes down to a re-pricing of Uber’s value,” Haslett said.
Since it was valued at US$68.5 billion more than a year ago Carson Wentz Jersey , the company has been hit by scandals, including accusations of sexual harassment. It has also weathered federal criminal probes into software Uber used to deceive regulators and allegations of paying bribes to authorities in Asia, and a lawsuit by Alphabet Inc’s self-driving unit Waymo, accusing Uber of stealing trade secrets.
Most recently, Uber revealed that the data of 57 million Uber customers and 600,000 drivers had been stolen in a breach more than a year ago Dallas Goedert Jersey , and that the company had paid two hackers US$100,000 to cover it up. Since then, governments across the globe have launched investigations into the incident.
(Agencies)
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